Railroad-tie.



F. W. THEAL & G. A. BLAIR.

RAILROAD TIE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 19 1913.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914v gaownfozs I FI IZT/yeal Q FRANKLIN W. THEAL AND GHARLESA. BLAIR, OF AKRON, OHIO.

RAILROAD-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

Application filed November 19, 1913. Serial No. 801,934.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANKLIN W. THEAL and CHARLES A. BLAIR, citizens of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Ties; and we do hereby declare the followin to be a full, clear, and exact description 0 the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in railroad ties and has for its principal object to provide a tie which may be constructed of metal and will be efficient and durable.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a novel combination and arrangement of parts by means of which the usual railroad rail may be secured to the tie without changing the construction of such rail.

A further object of the invention is to rovide a tie which will prevent the spreadmg of rails to which so many accidents on railroads are attributed.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a tie which will eliminate any side slip of the track and thereby prevent the rails from coming out of alinement.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of a novel combination and arrangement of parts which will be more fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved tie, showing one of the rails in place, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view show ing a rail in place, Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the improved tie, and Fig. 4-is an enlarged detail perspective view of the tie showing the anchor lugs.

Referrin now to the drawings by characters of reference the numeral 1 indicates generally a railroad rail of the usual construction which is supported upon the tie. The tie which is indicated generally by the numeral 2 is preferably formed of a single sheet of material 3, of uniform thickness throughout its area, and is bent as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4 in the form of a rectangular casing and the free edges are referably overlapped and riveted at as 4. car the riveted edges of the tie we preferably provide a plurality of slits which converge to form the triangularly spaced lugs 5, these lugs being at spaced intervals throughout the length of the, tie.

Near each end of the tie but spaced inward therefrom we preferably provide the "recess 5, one wall of which is beveled as clearly shown at 7, the metal between the wall 7 of the recess and the wall 8 ofthe recess, preferably remains integral with the tie and is bent upwardly as at 9 to form the tongue, b means of which the rail is held in place. Vl on it is so desired a suitable block of wood or similar material indicated by the numeral 10 may be inserted in the ends of the tie and directly beneath each of the recesses to form a cushion member upon which the rail is adapted to rest when the device is} the beveled wall of the recess 7, which willoverlic the flange as clearly shown. in Figs. 1 and 2 and prevent the rail from spreading.

After the rail has been placed in the position above referred to the tongue 9 is bent downwardly, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and. 2, and

it will be apparent that the rail will be held from disp acement, thus eliminating the danger of the rail turning over, or coming out of alinement. It will be further apparent that owing to the action of the lugs 5 against the bcddin material of the road the tie will beheld rom longitudinal displacement and the track after being laid will remain in the desired position and kinks and other irregularities due to the side slip-of the track will be entirely eliminated.

While in the foregoing we have shown and;

described the preferred embodiment of the invention we'wish it to, be understood that we may make such" changes in the combina-. tion and arrangement of parts without in any way departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim. .195.

What is claimed is:-

-In a device of the character described av body portion bent to form a substantially rectangular casing, the edges of said casing being riveted together, a plurality of slits formed near the. ends of the casing, -lu s formed between the slits and adaptedto o bent upwardly at right angles to the surface of the casing, said casing having a rec-0195i rail brat, thereby forming a uushihning near each end, the outer wall of (.nuh recess 5 member to take up the vlhratmn of trmnc. bemg beveled t0 form 21 m1] finngu engngmg 1n tosijllmmy whereof W0 ufilx our slggnw POIHOD, tongues termed of the metal hctux-us 1n prosonrv 01' two vv'ltnossos.

' W881 the outer mr inner walls )f the r0- '7' 5 t 1 1 LRAAALIL w 'rumn cess, said tongues being adapted to be bent fi r I downwardly and coifperate with the rqil CHARLIE flange q'ngnglng portmns to hold the rall- Witnesses:

road rzuls 1n place, andn block adapted to LLEWELLYN' J. ()swALn,

20 be inserted beneath each recess, and form a CLARENCE I-I. BELL. 

